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Kim Stanley Robinson

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Mountain Light

AntarcticaBantam Spectra (reprint, paperback, 653 pages, $6.99/$9.99 Can)
Publication date: July 13, 1999 (First Edition: July 1998)
Kim Stanley Robinson's upcoming novel is called The Martians, and it's due in September.
Until then, you'll have to be content with this reprint of his near-future eco-thriller,
a New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
"From the bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy comes a spectacular new novel
of the near future. Beneath its ice and frozen wastes, Antarctica contains great riches of
mineral wealth. Antarctica tells the story of the greedy conflict of nations and political
extremists who battle for control of the planet's final frontier.
In the near-future, when the bulk of Earth's resources are consumed, the harsh landscape of
Antarctica will hold the only salvation. As various individuals vie to make a living there,
their struggles are echoed on a global scale as corporate giants fight for control of Earth's
future."
Review by Jean-Louis Trudel

IcehengeOrb (reprint, trade paperback, 287 pages, $13.95 US/$19.95 Canada)
Publication date: July 12, 1998
There's no shortage of exciting new fiction this month... so why is the book I've been most anxiously awaiting this reprint
of a hard-to-find (believe me, I've tried) Robinson volume from 1984? It's piqued my curiosity ever since I spotted it
near the top of Rodger's Kim Stanley Robinson Reading List, 'way back in our October issue.
Maybe I'm just a sucker for cosmic-mystery science fiction...
In the 23rd century on Pluto, Icehenge stands at the north pole of the planet.
It is a study in ice frozen harder than stone, harder than steel. Each slab
towers 200 feet above the crater-pocked surface. The one in the center bears
an inscription in Sanskrit. The first mission to Pluto found it there, waiting for them.
Is it a starlit message from an alien race? Or does it mark a human mystery? For there
was one ship that might have passed this way, forgotten decades ago.
The novel incorporates two short stories, "To Leave a Mark" and "On the North Pole of Pluto".

Blue MarsBantam Spectra
Third and final novel in one of the most acclaimed SF trilogies of the decade. Through generations of
terraforming Mars has become a habitable haven... while Earth moves closer to catastrophes brought on by
overpopulation and ecological disaster. Mars is eyed as a refuge by millions, and the consequence may be
the first interplanetary conflict in humanity's history. To complicate matters political strife between the Reds,
who wish to preserve as much as Mars as possible, and the Green terraformers threatens to unhinge the entire
situation. Highly recommended.

The Memory of WhitenessTor
One of Robinson's more enigmatic titles, this book won't answer many
questions, rather it causes the reader to ask a whole basketful.

A Short, Sharp ShockBantam Spectra
Paperback reprint of the beautiful Ziesing hard cover edition, Stan's material
is coming back into print with his grand successes of Red Mars (a Nebula),
Green Mars (a Hugo) and the forthcoming Blue Mars. (He
said I could call him Stan when he signed his first autograph back in 1984.)